Ednah Kerubo a 23-years-old, KMTC student has opted to selling vegetables in the busy backstreets of Kisii town to support her own education.
The Kenya Medical Training College ( KMTC) student at Kisii campus who has deffered her studies twice because of lack of school fees, opted to sell vegetables to get money to enable her continue and complete her course after missing the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loan.
Despite the police harassment at night stereotyped jokes from young passers-by who mistake her for a night harlot, Edna has remained steadfast in pursuit for her dream of completing her Orthopaedic and Trauma Medicine course; the course she has deferred twice after failing to a HELB loan.”But I keep all these ridicules behind me behind me and depend on God who I hope will see me through these struggles one day” kerubo said.
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Talking to Education News, she narrated how she struggles in balancing education and her vegetable selling business. She noted that being raised and bread by her grandmother in Sambogo, Marani, quarter-acre land, where she grows vegetable and other farm produce to supplement her business.
“I sell vegetables in the evenings until late and go to my books till midnight then sleep a little to enable her face another day” she said.
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KMTC, Kisii Principal Daniel Onsate admitted that the determined student has serious financial challenges because she comes from a poor family. He noted that Kerubo has a fee balance of over Ksh 131,000, worried of the state of job she does especially hawking at night.
“She has huge fees arrears that cannot enable her complete her course unless some well-wishers come in and assist her.” he said.
He said that well- wishers including prominent government officials had pledged to donate some money to support her education but none has fulfilled their promise adding that Edna is one out of many cases of students who have dropped out of college because of lack of college fees.
Kerubo currently clings onto hope that doors will open to enable her resume classes for the second year of her program.
By Enock Okong’o.
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